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A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 4 › Verse 17
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 JOHN 4.17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement, &c.
1 JOHN 4.17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldnesse in the day of judgement, &c.
These words depend on vers. 12. where he promiseth a double benefit to them that love one another, God dwells in such, which he proved by four arguments before: the second benefit now, that if we love one another, Gods love is perfected in us, this he enlargeth in these following verses, and shows wherein it's perfect, and how that it is perfect, he proves from the boldness they have in the day of judgement; and the argument stands thus, They that may have boldness in the day of judgement, in them is love perfected; but loving Christians may have boldness in the day of judgement; Therefore, The assumption he proves thus, They who are in the world, as God himself is, they may have boldness in the day of judgement; but they who love one another are in the world as God himself is.
THese words depend on vers. 12. where he promiseth a double benefit to them that love one another, God dwels in such, which he proved by four arguments before: the second benefit now, that if we love one another, Gods love is perfected in us, this he inlargeth in these following verses, and shews wherein it's perfect, and how that it is perfect, he proves from the boldnesse they have in the day of judgement; and the argument stands thus, They that may have boldnesse in the day of judgement, in them is love perfected; but loving Christians may have boldnesse in the day of judgement; Therefore, The assumption he proves thus, They who are in the world, as God himselfe is, they may have boldnesse in the day of judgement; but they who love one another are in the world as God himselfe is.